About us

The CDTI-E.P.E. is a Business Public Entity under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities that promotes innovation and technological development of Spanish companies.
The CDTI-E.P.E. is a Business Public Entity under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities that promotes innovation and technological development of Spanish companies. This is the entity that engages applications assistance and support to R & D & I projects of Spanish companies at both state and international levels. Therefore, the aim of CDTI is to contribute to the improvement of the technological level of Spanish companies through the development of the following activities:
- Technical and economic evaluation and awarding of public aid to innovation through subsidies or aid partly refundable R & D projects developed by companies.
- Management and promotion of the Spanish participation in international programmes for technology cooperation.
- Promotion of the international transfer of technology and business support services to technological innovation.
- Support for the establishment and consolidation of technology-based enterprises.
The bulk of the infrastructure of CDTI is in Madrid, but in addition we offer Spanish companies a strategic network of offices and representatives abroad (the SOST OFFICES-Spain Office of Science and Technology-), specifically in Belgium, Japan, Brazil, Korea, Chile, India, Mexico and USA, to support them in their technology activities abroad.
Functions of the CDTI
The CDTI is governed by private law in its relations with third parties. This allows you to offer companies agility and flexibility.
The CDTI is governed by private law in its relations with third parties. This allows you to offer companiesdynamism and flexibilityin its development support services of business projects of r & D at international exploitation of technologies developed by the company and to the realization of offers for supplies tecnológico-industriales to scientific and technological organizations.
Accordingly, the CDTI provided to the enterprise financial own and facilitates access to the third (grants from the framework programme for r & D of the eu, for example) for the conduct of research and development projects at the national and international levels.
It also provides support to the company to develop international cooperation, which provides aid for innovation and technology transfer, your network and multilateral cooperation projects (Eureka and Iberoeka) and bilateral agreements with canada, japan, China, south korea, India and south africa.

The CDTI has also been established as the appropriate body to issue binding reasoned reports on the projects to which it has granted aid under any of its allocations (Royal Decree 2/2007). These documents will provide the Spanish companies which have an approved project and public aid granted by the CDTI with greater legal certainty when it comes to obtaining tax deductions for the expenses incurred in the R&D activities of such projects.
Finally, the CDTI manages and supports Spanish companies in obtaining high-tech industrial contracts generated by different national and European organisations, such as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the European Synchrotron (ESRF) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO), among others.